Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Education, officially assumes the role of the University's new vice president for government, community and public affairs on Tuesday, but his first few months in office, he says, will be a time for learning, not for doing. He has not developed goals or set agendas for his term, he says...
According to a posting placed on the University's employment opportunities Web site, the new vice president will have a "defined term of at least 18 months and not more than 2 years, at ROOKIESher height-Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith wanted her to play center...
...everything at once. This one can be tough, especially if you need to lose weight, because your best hope for long-term success requires permanent changes in your diet as well as a boost in your physical activity. But improvements in one area often lead to changes in others. If you're exercising regularly, for example, you're likely to find yourself eating more healthfully as well, so as not to undermine your "investment...
...despite the growth of managed care, there will always be people with enough money--or a high enough limit on their credit cards--to pay for what they want. "Typically," says Princeton's Silver, "medical researchers are moved by a desire to cure disease more effectively. Reprogenetics [a term Silver coined] is going to be driven by parents, or prospective parents, who want something for their children. It's the sort of demand that could explode...
...coined the term eugenics, from a Greek stem meaning "good in birth," was a cousin of Charles Darwin's. Englishman Francis Galton (1822-1911) had a substantial inheritance and a Victorian range of scientific curiosity. He dabbled in a number of fields, including geographical exploration, but his passion was mathematics, particularly the infant field of statistics...